Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 28, 1908, with a magnitude of 0.9655. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 4 days before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
The annular eclipse was visible in North America, including a part of central Mexico around Mexico City; Orlando; and Daytona Beach, Florida in the United States. In Africa, it included Rosso, Mauritania, the northernmost part of Senegal, Bamako and the southwestern French Sudan, the southwesternmost part of Upper Volta and northern British Gold Coast. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of northern South America, most of North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, North Africa, and Western Europe.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
EventTime
First Penumbral External Contact1908 June 28 at 13:29:11.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1908 June 28 at 14:33:04.2 UTC
First Central Line1908 June 28 at 14:34:43.5 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1908 June 28 at 14:36:22.8 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact1908 June 28 at 15:41:23.7 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1908 June 28 at 16:29:51.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1908 June 28 at 16:30:40.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1908 June 28 at 16:31:28.2 UTC
Greatest Duration1908 June 28 at 16:37:12.6 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact1908 June 28 at 17:18:16.1 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1908 June 28 at 18:23:16.9 UTC
Last Central Line1908 June 28 at 18:24:58.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1908 June 28 at 18:26:40.0 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1908 June 28 at 19:30:35.4 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.96548
Eclipse Obscuration0.93215
Gamma0.13895
Sun Right Ascension06h28m25.7s
Sun Declination+23°17'24.0"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'43.8"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.6"
Moon Right Ascension06h28m24.0s
Moon Declination+23°24'59.9"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'57.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'54.1"
ΔT8.4 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
June 14
Descending node 		June 28
Ascending node 		July 13
Descending node
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 109		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 135		Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 147

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1908

Saros 135

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